id, and David demanded how the host was ruled, and after bade him go
home to his house and wash his feet. And Uriah went thence, and the king
sent to him his dish with meat. Uriah would not go home, but lay before
the gate of the king's house with other servants of the king's. And it
was told to the king that Uriah went not home, and then David said to
Uriah: Thou comest from a far way, why goest thou not home? And Uriah
said to David: The ark of God and Israel and Judah be in the pavilions,
and my lord Joab and the servants of thee, my lord, lie on the ground,
and would ye that I should go to my house? By thy health and by the
health of my soul I shall not do so. Then David said to Uriah, Abide
here then this night, and to-morrow I shall deliver thee. Uriah abode
there that day and the next, and David made him eat tofore him and made
him drunk, yet for all that he would not go home, but lay with the
servants of David. Then on the morn David wrote a letter to Joab, that
he should set Uriah in the weakest place of the battle and where most
jeopardy was, and that he should be left there that he might be slain.
And Uriah bare this letter to Joab, and it was so done as David had
written, and Uriah was slain in the battle. And Joab sent word to David
how they had fought, and how Uriah was slain and dead. When Uriah's wife
heard that her husband was dead, she mourned and wailed him; and after
the mourning David sent for her and wedded her, and she bare him a son.
And this that David had committed on Uriah displeased greatly our Lord.

Then our Lord sent Nathan the prophet unto David, which, when he came,
said to him: There were two men dwelling in a city, that one rich and
that other poor. The rich man had sheep and oxen right many, but the
poor man had but one little sheep, which he bought and nourished and
grew with his children, eating of his bread and drinking of his cup, and
slept in his bosom. She was to him as a daughter. And on a time when a
certain pilgrim came to the rich man, he, sparing his own sheep and oxen
to make a feast to the pilgrim that was come to him, took the only sheep
of the poor man and made meat thereof to his guest. David was wroth and
said to Nathan: By the living God, the man that hath so done is the
child of death, the man that hath so done shall yield therefor four
times double. Then said Nathan to David: Thou art the same man that hath
done this thing. This said the Lord God of Israel: I have an